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单词 physiocrat
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Definition of physiocrat in English:

physiocrat

noun ˈfɪzɪəkratˈfɪziəˌkræt
  • A member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade.

    重农主义者(18世纪法国一经济学派成员,认为农业是一切财富之源,农产品应定高价,主张遵循一种假设的社会制度的自然秩序,强调自由贸易的必要性)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of Atkinson's final arguments is that the single tax was tried in France before the French Revolution, under the physiocrats, led by Turgot, and proved a miserable failure.
    • It can be traced in the theories of public finance to the work of the 18th century French physiocrats.
    • The precursors of classical political economy were, of course, the physiocrats, who articulated a concept of social class on the basis of a series of theoretical deductions.
    • The physiocrats placed particular stress upon patterns that emerge from laissez-faire.
    • The physiocrats' use of the simple phrase classe propriétaire (land-owning class) is indicative, because it enabled them to avoid the question of social rank.
    • Unfortunately the BNF's Gallica site, which has some of the physiocrats' works in its index, doesn't provide the option of sorting its results by date.
    • Under the influence of liberal economists, and especially the physiocrat Gournay, author of the phrase laissez-passer, laissez-faire, guild monopolies were increasingly bypassed so as to allow market forces to take their course.
    • However, the French physiocrats and the British classical economists entirely destroyed the rest of the mercantilist scheme.
    • Like the French physiocrats, the enlighteners argued for a return to agriculture, based, however, more on their romanticization of the Bible than on solid economic theory.
    • The principles of laissez-faire and the ideas of the physiocrats were invoked even in the Papal States, where the customs system and the urban provisioning regulations were reformed in the same years.
    • Smith shared the objection of the French physiocrats to the mercantile system, but he did not share their view that land is the sole source of wealth.
    • Smith's view of taxes on land has been the general view among economists since then, and in fact one can trace Smith's argument to the French physiocrats who preceded him.

Derivatives

  • physiocracy

  • noun ˌfɪzɪˈɒkrəsiˌfɪziˈɑkrəsi
    • Chapters 2 to 11 provide surveys of traditional topics such as ancient Greek and medieval economics, mercantilism, physiocracy, political arithmetic, Adam Smith, classical economics, and Marx.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The result was a new category of science whose original nomenclature, ‘physiocracy’ (the rule of nature), was discarded for that of ‘economics’ but then restored as other schools emerged, each with its distinctive emphasis.
  • physiocratic

  • adjective ˌfɪzɪəˈkratɪkˌfɪziəˈkrædɪk
    • Government ministers, who found it impossible to reduce royal expenditures, were particularly seduced by the physiocratic idea of stimulating agriculture and then taxing the resulting wealth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The monarchy, operating partly upon physiocratic principles, threatened the guilds with abolition in 1776.
      • It will be evident from the book's title that our attention is to be directed at those enlightenment authors who were roughly a generation younger than Quesnay and his physiocratic contemporaries.
      • It is a descriptive account, with occasional physiocratic remarks, that essentially transcribes documents from diverse origins, mainly the companies themselves.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French physiocrate, from physiocratie 'physiocracy' (see physio-, -cracy).

Definition of physiocrat in US English:

physiocrat

nounˈfɪziəˌkrætˈfizēəˌkrat
  • A member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade.

    重农主义者(18世纪法国一经济学派成员,认为农业是一切财富之源,农产品应定高价,主张遵循一种假设的社会制度的自然秩序,强调自由贸易的必要性)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The precursors of classical political economy were, of course, the physiocrats, who articulated a concept of social class on the basis of a series of theoretical deductions.
    • The physiocrats' use of the simple phrase classe propriétaire (land-owning class) is indicative, because it enabled them to avoid the question of social rank.
    • Under the influence of liberal economists, and especially the physiocrat Gournay, author of the phrase laissez-passer, laissez-faire, guild monopolies were increasingly bypassed so as to allow market forces to take their course.
    • It can be traced in the theories of public finance to the work of the 18th century French physiocrats.
    • The principles of laissez-faire and the ideas of the physiocrats were invoked even in the Papal States, where the customs system and the urban provisioning regulations were reformed in the same years.
    • However, the French physiocrats and the British classical economists entirely destroyed the rest of the mercantilist scheme.
    • Smith shared the objection of the French physiocrats to the mercantile system, but he did not share their view that land is the sole source of wealth.
    • One of Atkinson's final arguments is that the single tax was tried in France before the French Revolution, under the physiocrats, led by Turgot, and proved a miserable failure.
    • Smith's view of taxes on land has been the general view among economists since then, and in fact one can trace Smith's argument to the French physiocrats who preceded him.
    • The physiocrats placed particular stress upon patterns that emerge from laissez-faire.
    • Unfortunately the BNF's Gallica site, which has some of the physiocrats' works in its index, doesn't provide the option of sorting its results by date.
    • Like the French physiocrats, the enlighteners argued for a return to agriculture, based, however, more on their romanticization of the Bible than on solid economic theory.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French physiocrate, from physiocratie ‘physiocracy’ (see physio-, -cracy).

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